You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.